This is the final installation in a series by Hewlett Environment Program Officer Erin Rogers about what charitable philanthropists and nonprofits are learning about ways to convert widespread public support for clean energy and other climate solutions into policy action that can ensure a safer climate for all. Looking at – and beyond – Hewlett’s …

This is the fourth in a five-part series by Hewlett Environment Program Officer Erin Rogers about what charitable philanthropists and nonprofits are learning about ways to convert widespread public support for clean energy and other climate solutions into policy action that can ensure a safer climate for all. Looking at – and beyond – Hewlett’s own …

This is the third in a five-part series by Hewlett Environment Program Officer Erin Rogers about what charitable philanthropists and nonprofits are learning about ways to convert widespread public support for clean energy and other climate solutions into policy action that can ensure a safer climate for all. Looking at – and beyond – Hewlett’s …

This is the second in a five-part series by Hewlett Environment Program Officer Erin Rogers about what charitable philanthropists and nonprofits are learning about ways to convert widespread public support for clean energy and other climate solutions into policy action that can ensure a safer climate for all. Looking at — and beyond — Hewlett’s …

This is the first in a five-part series by Hewlett Foundation Environment Program Officer Erin Rogers about what charitable philanthropists and nonprofits are learning about ways to convert widespread public support for clean energy and other climate solutions into policy action that can ensure a safer climate for all. Jump to Part Two of this series. …

As part of our effort to update our grantmaking strategy this year, the education team is committed to getting feedback from a diverse set of people across the country about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to teaching and learning. We’re eager to hear from critics and fans of deeper learning, rural and …

Budget showdowns, government shutdown threats, and partisan gridlock over federal spending bills have become common features of Congress’s annual budget process. But the 2018 federal spending bill, despite being another bulging omnibus, offers a narrow sliver of hope for change. Tucked into that bill is authorization for a Joint Select Committee on Budget Process and …

When I tell people I lead a grantmaking initiative at the Hewlett Foundation that seeks to shore up the values, norms, and institutions of democracy in the United States – in particular Congress – eyebrows rise as they say something like, good luck with that! When I tell them I am cautiously optimistic, jaws drop …

Annual reports from nonprofit organizations make me sad. They make me sad because I know from personal experience how hard it is to produce, every 12 months, a distinctive publication that “tells your story” – a publication that is not just a pretty wrapping for your financial statements, but is something that will turn a …

Marilyn Waite is a program officer with the foundation’s Environment Program, which works to safeguard human health and well-being and protect populations from harmful climate change by advancing climate and clean energy solutions. Marilyn is developing a new and growing area of grantmaking around climate and clean energy finance. She explains what that means and …